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Attacks on Gizmodo's Brazilian site and the website of an unnamed logistics firm hosted by the same ISP have prompted Trend Micro to investigate whether “a vulnerability was used in order to penetrate the web servers,” according to a company blog post.

While law enforcement won an important battle against cyber crime by taking down the Gameover Zeus botnet and hampering the threat of CryptoLocker malware, that hasn't stopped persistent and innovative criminals from producing variants on file-encryption malware like the recently detected Cryptoblocker, according to Trend Micro.

Trend Micro’s one-time password (OTP)-based two-factor authentication bypass report (PDF) is hardly news to those in the tech world, but it is well-packaged and even branded with a weird name - Operation Emmental (also known as Swiss cheese) - how media-ready!

Cloud-based antivirus vendor Webroot is investing in joint marketing and seminars, white papers, training and support to grow its base of resellers in North America and attract managed service providers with a newly released console.

What the Goodwill breach illustrates -- and why old hacker tricks continue to work -- is the inadequacy of payment system standards. "Almost all major retail and credit card breaches occurred where a vendor or merchant was actually in PCI-DSS compliance," said Vijay Basani, CEO of EiQ Networks. "Regulations in general incentivize merchants to do just enough to pass a security audit."